Summary
In this uproarious chronicle of romantic ambition thwarted by a relentless cascade of mechanical and elemental misfortune, a fervent young suitor endeavors to whisk his beloved and her entire, rather substantial, family away on what he hopes will be a memorable excursion. His initial chariot, a well-intentioned but ultimately overmatched Ford sedan, rapidly succumbs to the sheer gravitational and structural demands of its passenger load, spectacularly disintegrating under the strain. Undeterred, our hapless hero procures a replacement, a hired vehicle, only for fate to intervene with a catastrophic train collision, reducing it to mangled wreckage. The journey, now a veritable odyssey of vehicular destruction, progresses to a taxi, which, in an almost poetic climax of bad luck, halts precariously on a wharf. Here, the patriarch of the family, a man whose dignity seems to decrease in direct proportion to the escalating chaos, plunges unceremoniously into the briny depths. Following his soggy retrieval, the family, seemingly oblivious to the young man's increasingly dire financial and emotional straits, embarks on a motorboat, leaving their erstwhile rescuer marooned on the dock, burdened with the unenviable task of settling the taxi's fare for a journey that delivered only disaster.
Synopsis
A young lover tries to take his girl and her whole family out in a Ford sedan but it falls to pieces under the strain. A hired car is smashed by a train. A taxi stops on a wharf and father falls into the water. After he is rescued, the party goes off in a motorboat without the youth, who remains to pay the taxi driver.
Director
Cliff Bowes, Virginia Vance, Sidney Smith
